Tanya Underwood, LMFT

Tanya Underwood is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Arizona. She has 16 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and relationship challenges. Tanya works with clients who are processing trauma, navigating parenting and caregiving strains, or managing chronic health and pain challenges. She treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.

Tanya focuses on tailoring conversation and treatment to each person's needs. She uses practical strategies so people can try small changes between sessions. Sessions often include checking how day-to-day coping is going and building skills for mood, sleep, appetite, and impulse control.

Her approach pulls from several evidence-informed methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking and try different actions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, supports people in clarifying values and taking action even when distress is present. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in close relationships.

Tanya also brings techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and client-centered work to help with emotion regulation and to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space. Over time she helps people set goals, practice new ways of relating, and notice progress in daily life.

If you are coping with life changes such as illness, adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, or questions about identity and intimacy, she can help you sort priorities and plan next steps.

Therapeutic approaches that transfer well to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name what matters to them and take small meaningful actions even when uncomfortable emotions are present. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, chronic health challenges, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going and testing new ways of thinking and acting; it often helps with depression, anxiety, sleep, and eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections, and it supports people who want to change how they relate to partners or close others.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they adjust techniques so the work fits the person's needs and daily routines rather than forcing a single method.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing shorter check-ins when helpful. It can also let someone work on skills between sessions in the settings where they live and cope. The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current session options before booking to know what will work best for scheduling and comfort.